LOVE this! Y'all are hilarious and entertaining.

I am looking to find out for each movie where are the "cuts" due to 30' duration of each side of discs. Does anyone know a web page giving that information, please? Million thanks.

I have the same C3PO mug ! I have the Darth Vader one as well !

I bought a LaserDisc player and this Definitive Collection just so that I could watch Han kill Greedo (with no shot fired by Greedo) and to not see that awful CGI Jabba the Hutt scene in Star Wars. I'll have to check if I have the early or later pressing thanks and yes no dust cover for my book

Loved CAV format! I remember Dracula third side CAV on my Pioneer LD player, still frame by frame the scene where Winona Ryder cuts off D's head! You could see it was a dummy! Perfect still frame. Ahh, so cool what we had back in the day.

Norse Mythology on a blind date

My first LD exploration began in 1996. A Panasonic player. It was glorious! I thought I’d gone to heaven as a life long movie freak. Since then I’ve had on and off again dealings. HDTV was not nice to LD. Audio: still holds up. But I couldn’t get past the video signal. But man do I look back with such warm feelings on this format. So cool to connect with this video!

I love this and the Street Fighter movie! Havent seen the new CGI Mario movie.

The first time I saw the SMB movie, 8 year old me was just perplexed and frankly creeped out by how the Koopa Troopas looked in it, and it put me off watching it again until much later in life.

Back in the early 2000s, i kinda liked the panorama stretch with TV shows haha.

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I need to fix my first LD player. It's a Quasar as well. Guy told me it worked and I got it home and it didn't.

so i'll just keep my 32 inch CRT and matching hernia

I always used to get mad when I saw bold letter notes saying "THIS FILM HAS BEEN FORMATTED TO FIT YOUR TV".... How the hell do you know what kind of TV I have?!? 😂 Oh the screen insanity indeed 😎

Where did you get the laserdisc holder that are on your shelf behind you in this video

I still don't get it. Collect sure if that's your thing. But why watch something in lower quality when there are better options? I also don't agree with the Atari comparison either. Many people grew up with only the home versions of arcade games and would want to play those today based on their play history and nostalgia. And for the most part, people felt the arcade translations sucked then. Most of the best games were original titles not the arcade translations. Comparing wanting to play a game like Pitfall! doesn't really translate to wanting to watch a movie in lower quality because that's how you watched it in 1991. This is coming from someone who had a laserdisc collection as well as an Atari fan.

Hello there could you advise where can I get the working laser? My Sony c2 stopped working :(

Picture overview...It's a composite format so it'll be a bugger to look good on a modern HDTV and the image will be very soft, also not all titles are in widescreen either! Disc overview...They're as big as a record and you'll have several of them to flip over if it's a long (over 2hrs) runtime, expect to be changing sides about four times. 😆😆😆😆

Excellent and accurate history lesson.

Has anyone had a chance to compare the new Dolby Atmos mix of Jurassic Park against the LD DTS track? Let me explain why I am asking. Jurassic Park was NOT originally mixed in Dolby Atmos and I have noticed that older mixes that are upscale or remixed to Atmos typically don't hit nearly as hard as they originally did in their original 5.1 channel theatrical mixes that made their way to LD. This includes AC-3 mixes since the bit rate for 35MM AC-3 and LD AC-3 are close in bit rate due to their bandwidth limitations.

Watch Heavy Star Wars Episode 1. Deep Purple's Highway Star playing during the Pod Race sequence. You'll never go back to watching this version after you've seen it.

I enjoyed waterworld on 4k. They had a Costner sale on gruv a few weeks back

I was a teen when this came out. Had a crush on Jamie Gertz. Always wondered if I was the only one..?

Good one, guys! I still haven't seen Waterworld but over the years, I keep hearing how it's one of those films that got a bum rap, that it wasn't really *that* bad. So it's definitely going on the watch list.

nice show. fridays are better with thy company... and a good pale ale too

A good decoder for AC3RF and DTS is the Denon AVD-2000. It can often be found on eBay for almost the same price as a standard Yamaha AC3RF demodulator

I'm just starting collecting laser discs. I'm not sure if this is a stupid question but..Is it possible to polish and resurface a laser disc that skips and fix it? I tried the novus 3,2,1 and it helped slightly I think but did not fix it. Help please? Thanks

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A friend of mine watched the pan-and-scan' version of 'Prospero's Books'. He nicknamed this version "Osper Oo" :)

Its stupid how the AC3 demodulator was never integrated into any player. even on the Combo DVD LD players there were three digital outputs. One for AC3 RF, one for DVD PCM and AC3 (maybe also for LD PCM), and a single PCM output (could have been just for CDs but might have also been the LD digital output).

Have you ever tried to resurface a laser disc movie that will not play? I have a copy of Videodrome on laser disk that skips. I ordered the Novus 3,2,1 cratch remover. I've tried it several times, and it still skips. Any suggestions, please?

New Englander and new to the hobby. Respect. Is there a full database of all LD films? I may want to start collecting African American LaserDisc films if they exist.

I built a screent size of roughly 65" tall by 14-6 wide which was 2.35;1 by my calcs back in about 2007 and at the time I found a Vertical Compression Lens for the special deal price of $700. It's prisms were of acrylic. A few years ago I lucked out and found the exact lens but with GLASS prism and what a difference! Panamorph U85 is the model. So about three projectors later an Optoma UHZ65 does the honors and most 16 by 9 content fills the entirety. There's an aspect button on the remote I use when wiewinh anything letterbox to get rid of the top bottom black bars. I still have my pioneer CLD 501 or something laserdisc that plays both sides without flipping. Back in the day I used Sony crt projector and a dvdo line doubler for a short time. Wasn't great but was a start. Would be nice to enjoy laserdisc with the UHZ65 but I think you see the lines . Maybe you could suggest the best RGBHV to HDMI converter so I could add the ole laserdiscs into the mix?

Man, I'm no stranger to Laserdisc but I've never really owned one nor bought any Laserdisc film AT ALL. Now I don't own this set at all honestly. The only set I do own is the 2006 DVD releases of the Original Trilogy (a.k.a The Special Editions) which were the Limited Editions with the bonus discs containing the "Theatrical" versions. I wonder if the Theatrical versions were sourced from this set?

"Metric Butt-Tons" is a legitimate measurement. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Hey man, what's the model of Sony Projector in your intro video?

I am 54 nowadays ad among many many movies I got to see The Keep in theaters for Free in theaters Thanks to A projectionist Freind back then times.

At My local thrift Store I recent bought A few RCA Selectravison Laserdiscs Of a few Movies I Saw in theaters Ages ago and such type selections and fave type movies such as Deathwish 1, Blue Thunder , and Neighbors 1981 etc for 2 bucks only each , and No I do not have any Laserdisc players but I found these Discs interesting Art and Nostalgia none the less to have. So since I have seen videos about this RCA series Of discs and the Seeming Consensus is they are Only Subpar and Problematic as Compared to Any other companies original produced Laserdics. And typically some I Googled are tads Pricey pricey too. Is that Overall in your opinion True too?

Great review! 🙌

Can you explain other releases that go for a lot, such as The Wizard? Is open matte that important for that particular film?

Had laserdiscs for a long time. The TV's and projectors had a zoom mode to get the right aspect ratio and not squeezed vertically. That was not needed once I moved onto anamorphic DVD's. I still remember some DVD's still needed the zoom mode such as 2001 and The Abyss (which I still have).

I wonder if we’ll be talking about laserdisc in another 20-50 years. We’re at 8k resolution and this format still gives a select group of people, “something.” Maybe in 20’years I’ll actually have an X0. Like the doc says in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, “I have to see it at full power.”

Love the audio on laserdisc, the supplements. The cover art. It is probably my favorite way to watch anime.

I have this version and the colors are washed out . I have Empire and Jedi THX remastered which are far superior in color ,contrast ...I never got around to getting the THX remaster. I did see it before and it was great . I was never sold on the SE versions . I do have the despecialized editions which are masterful

Wish I had scream on laser disc it's the only format it's ever been released on directors cut even to this day. I saw it on paper view once when it first came out.

Hell the huge unique record size cases alone are worth collecting. Should be a no brainer. I only have one laser disc. T2. Wish I had a player

Enjoy the content. It encouraged me to purchase a player and hunt for the movies I enjoyed.

i saw this theatrically in 95 at age 25. I loved the 1960 original and the Wyndham book. Very disappointing. In DTS. Didn't help much.

Was in high school when this came out...we all loved it because it was totally against the Cabbage Patch Kids.